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BUCKLE.

No. 289,884. 'Patented 1380.4, 1888.

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UNITED STATES WILLIAM F. MITCHELL, OF WILLIAMS,

ASSIGNOR TOHIMSELF AND HENRY S. DABR, OF LEESVILLE, INDIANA.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,684, dated December 4, 1883.

Application filed `Julie 4, 1883. (No model.) y

.To all whom it may concern,.- i

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. MITcHnLL, of Williams, in the county of Lawrence and State of Indiana, have invented a new and Improved Harness and other Buckle, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is more especially designed for, although not exclusively restricted'to, harness-straps-such as breechings, for instance; but is not so convenient for or on traces, and as applied to breechings it forms a buckle, in which a horses tail is prevented from catching or fastening. It also forms a very neat and readily-adjustable buckle and self-fastener. In certain respects it possesses the same or like characteristics as certain other buckles-that is, it is made up of a frame having cross-bars; also, is capable of attachment to a strap without sewing, and has no movable tongue; but here all similarity ends; and my invention consists in a certain construction of the frame having four cross-bars, with reverse rigid tongues on two of said bars, substantially as hereinafter described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents an outside face view 0I" my improved buckle applied to a breeching or other strap in looped connection with a ring; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section of the same in a plane at right angles to Fig. l, and Fig. 3 a view in perspective of the buckle'or fastener.

The buckle and fastener is or may be made complete in one solid piece, and consists of a united at one end by a raised cross-bar, c, having a straight tongue, d, arranged to project from its inner side, an intermediate depressed or inner cross-bar, e, having a sloping or curved tongue, f, arranged to project in an outward and opposite` direction relativelyto the tongue d, and an inner cross-bar, g, and outer cross-bar, h, at the opposite end of the sides bb, and vpreferably arranged one a little in advance of the other.

To applyy the buckle to a breeching-strap, 5o B, oneendof said strap is looped over the bar e and engaged by a perforation or any one of a series of perforations, s, in it with the tongue f, and said end portion of the strap afterward passed back under the cross-bar c, when it may be looped through or over the ring C, and is subsequently run to and under the bar c and engaged by a hole or any one of a series of perforations, fr, with the tongue d, and from thencepassed over the bar e to and 6o between the bars g h. Ihe inwardly-running connection of the bar c with the sides b b does awayv with all possibility of the tail of the horse catching under or fastening to said bar c, and the bar g, at the other end of the buckle, 6 5 is beneath the strap, so as to prevent any catching or fastening of the tail at that or any other part. In fact, the buckle constructed, as described, of opposite side bars with four connecting cross-bars and reverse tongues-the 7o one straight and the other inclined or sloping applied to two of the cross-bars-forms aperfectself-fastener, all of which may be castor made in one piece, without joint or tongue, and-.which applied to a breeching-strap precludes all possibility of the horses tail catching or fastening in it.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. 'Ihe buckle consisting of a frame made 8o up of side bars, b b, and inner and outer crossbars, c e g h, with reverse tongues df on two of said cross-bars, c e, substantially as specified.

2. The self-fastening-buckle composed of side bars, b b, and cross-bars e e g h, as de- Y scribed, with a straight tongue, d, attached to one end cross-bar, and a sloping or curved tongue, f, arranged to project in a reverse direction from the intermediate bar, e, for use 9o in connection with a strap, B, essentially as shown and described.

111s WILLIAM F. CRAIG.

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